Rathduff House

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1890, having projecting end bays with paired windows, recent single-storey infill porch, slightly lower two-bay two-storey return and lean-to to rear, conservatory to south and recent single-storey extension to north. Hipped slate roof with rendered chimneystacks, and pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks to return. Painted rendered walls. Square-headed openings with one-over-one pane timber sliding sash windows and limestone sills. Round-headed opening with cobweb fanlight and timber panelled door obscured by porch addition. Yard to west having single-storey stables to north, east and west sides with pitched slate roofs, walls of roughcast render over rubble limestone, and square-headed openings. Yard having square-profile rendered piers with carved caps and rubble limestone boundary walls to south. East stables have windbreak to front, terracotta ridge crestings, rendered and brick chimneystacks, some two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows having limestone sills and timber battened doors and half doors. West stables five-bay with timber battened half-doors. North stables are multiple-bay, having lean-to front with corrugated-iron roof, windows with timber fittings and timber battened doors, some with glazed overlights.

The projecting end bays add rhythm to the otherwise regular façade of this house. The house retains its timber sliding sash windows which are typical of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The manufacture of such windows became possible with advances in technology whereby large panes of glass became readily available and increasingly affordable. The stables, symmetrically arranged around a central courtyard, provide valuable context to the site and retain their original form and function.